Port Chester will use an at-large cumulative voting system to elect its trustees in 2010: “I think that all parties worked very well and very hard together to come up with a novel approach to a cumulative voting program,” said Randolph McLaughlin . . . a Pace University Law School professor. “The voter education program we put together is a model for the rest of the country.”

Amendment 3 to the Pierce county charter is an attempt by incumbent politicians to rig the system and prevent any serious challengers from competing. IRV is simply too fair and too democratic to not keep using in our electoral system.